MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> While reading a thread featuring Mudkips here I wondered if anti-immigrant folks in
> the U.S. realize that those folks who took the country from the native Americans WERE
> immigrants.

I wonder if those who make this comparison between Europeans taking over land populated largely by nomads and Mexicans illegally entering owned land that is part of a country with established laws regarding such actions ever bother to think beyond "they immigrated too."

Don't pretend to be referring to all immigrants. Those who "hate all immigrants" are an ignorant and insignificant group akin to any other racists, to be dealt with as such. Then there's another group offended by those who choose not to assimilate into the culture they've chosen to live within. That is a rather widespread feeling, hardly limited to the United States. One should never choose to live in a place, then expect everyone there to change to suit you.

As for immigration, Asians came here, wandered around, killed giant birds, giant sloths, mammoths, and each other. They were not about peace, love, and happiness. They were about getting what they wanted by whatever means required. The concept that they lived in harmony with nature stems from both their having been around long enough to know stuff, and their being more primitive.

Then Europeans came and eventually killed those people. They took the land by force as those who were there had taken it from the previous residents, several times over several millennia.

War is the way things happen, and a code of law unto itself. If people are invading your country, they should be repelled by the same sorts of methods that have always been used. If they come here in accordance with the rules, there's no need for that.